MARTHA WASHINGTON for "Tea In The Garden"

With the 4th of July coming Sunday,

 I wanted to set up a little tea time

 with Martha Washington:

I made a Lemon Pound Cake
(click for recipe)

yesterday so let's have a slice. 

Today is a beautiful June day so we can 

sit here under the deck and chat and have tea.
We will celebrate Independence Day
which was first celebrated July 4, 1776.
If you like, click on this link for a history lesson.

These are old Homer Laughlin

 pieces and English

Mason's Vista cups and saucers.

I dug out another area in my backyard

recently but it isn't very pretty yet as

I took plants from here and there that

aren't all that happy to be moved.  I am

glad I did it as it allowed me to

join Jeremy Fisher back with Miss Tabitha.

My garden is a bit of a 

"Popsicle  stick garden" with sticks

marking seedlings everywhere!

I do hope your summer is going well!

WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL VISITED MISSOURI - 1946

This post isn't exactly about tea but it is about

 someone from England.  Last weekend we were

 invited to visit the historic Churchill Museum

 on the campus of Westminster College nearby

in Fulton, Missouri.

This is the Tuttle House which houses the

Churchill Institute and you know how I love

these Victorian homes.  Our friend, Dr. Kurt Jefferson

who invited us has his office located here:

Here is a collage of some of the home's features.

Across the street is a church dating back to the

 17th century which was completely

 moved piece by piece from London, England to

 Fulton, Missouri and reconstructed stone-by-stone

on the campus of Westminster College.

  These pictures are of the upper level:

 .......the lower level houses the Churchill Museum

as my husband Keith, his brother Paul and Dr. Jefferson

prepare to enter:

  

Some of you might recall Winston Churchill's

 famous "Iron Curtain"

Speech was given on the Westminster College

 Campus in 1946.

  (not that you were around then of course)

The collage below

shows him riding in an open car with President

Harry Truman:

My husband and I have recently experienced a

 renewed interest in history - how about you?
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